Therapy Tools & Techniques

Therapy Tools You Might Encounter

  • Weighted Blanket

    Weighted Blanket

  • Fidgets

  • Two large, colorful glass bowls with a floral decoration behind a device with dials and indicator lights, along with a coiled cable and small white and black earbud headphones on a wooden surface.

    EMDR Tappers

  • A wooden tray filled with a beige-colored powdery substance, placed on a patterned surface. In the background, part of a gray fabric with large buttons and a green leaf are visible.

    Kinetic Sand

  • A rectangular blue and white patterned pillow placed on a red velvet sofa with a landscape picture hanging on the wall behind.

    Weighted/Tactile Pillow

  • Decorative wood surface with candles, a large glass vase, a pair of white headphones, a red stick with a purple spiky ball, a green leaf, a purple and beige wall decoration, and a large mirror reflecting light.

    Brainspotting Tools (pointer & headphones)

  • Outdoor scene with green plants, a broken tree branch, and a small electronic device labeled 'NEUR OPTIMAL' connected to various wires, placed on the ground covered with bark and leaves.

    Neurofeedback System

  • Three cute carved animal sandtray therapy figurines placed in a wooden sandtray with kinetic sand

    Sandtray box and figurines

  • Tabletop role-playing game setup with miniature figures, a map, and a box of colorful dice.

    Dungeons & Dragons Therapy Tools

Therapy Techniques You Might Encounter

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS Parts Work)

  • Brainspotting & EMDR

  • Trauma processing

  • Mind/body (somatic) work

  • Sandtray Therapy

  • Dungeons & Dragons Therapy Groups

  • Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals & Couples

  • Centering/Grounding Exercises

  • Expressive Arts

  • Interaction cycle (feedback loops) tracking

  • Life timelines

  • Family maps (genograms)

Therapy Concepts You Might Encounter

  • Attachment theory

  • Polyvagal theory

  • Trauma/Stress Cycle

  • Neuroplasticity & Neural Integration

  • Trauma/Energy Flow

  • Intergenerational Trauma

  • Cultural Trauma

  • Birth & Pre-Birth Trauma

  • "Top-Down" & "Bottom-Up" Processing

  • Sense of Self

  • Intersectional & justice factors

  • Spoons theory (energy management)

Therapeutic Attitudes You Might Encounter

  • This process isn’t about trying to “fix” you, improve your attitude, or modify your behavior.

    It’s about releasing burdens and blocks to healing, finding relief, coming back to life, and unfurling more and more of who you gloriously are. And sure, once you’re feeling better your outlook and choices may feel a little sunnier, but it will have come from you - from caring for yourself and tending to your needs rather than performing or conforming to appease some cultural standard.

  • Brain/body/spirit/emotion-based rather than thought or behavior-based

    Yes, you’ll end up learning what to do with your big emotions, negative cognitions, and shame-ey beliefs, which may help you feel less at the mercy of undesired habits or stuckness. But it happens organically through a loving understanding of your unique self & values rather than trying to fit a generic picture of what “healthy” is supposed to be.

  • We don’t need you to perform or "mask" around here

    You don’t have to give eye contact, you can put your shoes on the couch, you can slump into the pillows, you can burrow under the weighted blanket, you can play with fidgets, you can color, you can stare off into space… You don’t need to burn all that social energy that could be better spent on your healing. Take all the room you need to flow and be comfortable as you are.

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